Quotes About Sustainability

Buy only what you really need and cannot do without," President Harry Truman once said on TV.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.

Don't count calories, don't hate carbs, don't go to the Stone Age. Simply eat real food, healthy food, and find ways to love every bit of food and the health that results. It will become a lifelong habit and you can leave the yo-yoing behind.

Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

Make government what it ought to be, and it will support itself.

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

What was here yesterday would be here tomorrow, and if it wasn't it was no great matter. What mattered was the earth and what it could provide.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

While we sit in our air-conditioned homes and eat, drink and make merry like cattle in a feedlot without the slightest thought about the consequences of our consumption of water, food and energy, we only hasten the destruction -in the long term- of our kind.

If you're concerned about our future, it's not just desirable that we eradicate poverty in the developing world, create more equal societies and never let ourselves fight another war; it's imperative, for the discount factor tells us that failure to do so may cost us the Earth.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

I have no time for fad diets.

I know it's become a cliche of sorts, but, nonetheless, it is true. This is the only planet we and our children and children's children will call home. We can't afford to lose this home because we didn't protect it.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

As a company, we are not interested only in investments.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.